单选题
Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before. Landscape (风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Ledge paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in motion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography (摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom. Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods. Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.
单选题
The underlined word "poetry" most probably means ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[考点] 词义猜测题 [解析] 从第一段to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before可知艺术家力图创造一种从来没人看到或者经历过的意境。既然是没有人看到过或者经历过，那么应该是一种不平常的东西。
单选题
Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[考点] 细节推断题 [解析] 根据第二段In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background可以推断出Leslie的画表现的都是平时常见的事物。
单选题
What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 细节推断题 [解析] 根据第三段Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another可以推断出每一代艺术家对于现实的理解和表现都是不 同的，也就是没有一个永恒的标准。
单选题
What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[考点] 文章归纳题 [解析] 根据最后一段Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings可知虽然艺术的表现形式不同，但都表达了人类的基本需要和希望。也就是说艺术反映了当时人的生存状态。
单选题
Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?